V-Day & beyond

So this weekend should prove to be very fun I think... I'm really looking forward to it actually. Tonight I was supposed to maybe go out to dinner with this friend of mine, but since I've got the gang coming over tomorrow I'll probably end up skipping out on that. So for this evening I've got to go shopping for the big "Anti-Valentine's Day" party that's being held at my apartment tomorrow afternoon and I've also gotta buy some stuff for school. Today I finally got my DVD of "Dream for an Insomniac" in the mail that I ordered back in December so I'm planning on watching that as well.

And then there's the party tomorrow. To celebrate our dislike of the entirely commercialized seudo-holiday that is Valentine's Day we are planning on wearing black and watching horror movies. We're also having a potluck, for which I will be making Bagel Bites & my usual tasty sugar cookies, maybe some mandu as well since I've got a whole big bag of them in the freezer. There will of course be wine and other alcoholic beverages to round out the evening...though you can be sure I'm planning on staying away from that devilish Chinese absinthe. That stuff was lethal...

So that's the plan for Saturday then, maybe with running in the morning with the Hashers if it's not too cold out. I might go running with the other Hashers' group on Sunday if I don't on Saturday...Danya's been trying to get us all to join her both days. She's crazy...she reminds me a lot of me when I'm so health-crazed and fanatical about rollerblading every day in the summer. Of course I do have my limits: I cannot tolerate doing anything in cold weather. And that is where we both differ...she's got a will of iron and not even sub-zero temperatures can prevent her from getting her runner's high. But maybe, since it seems lately I have become more accustomed to the chill, I might join her sooner rather than later. Anyway...

Sunday night I promised Danya and Zach (another anime groupee) that I'd go with them to this dinner thing at an English bookstore down in Itaewon. Not sure what is being served, but Danya's vegetarian and she's not worried about it, so neither am I. I think we might be doing something before that too, or possibly after. We'll figure it all out tomorrow I guess.

Also, one of the teachers at my school had mentioned something to me on Tuesday about if I'd possibly want to stay longer at this school after my contract expires. So then, since my brother's not getting married until the end of September I might remain here until at least the end of August just to save up a little more money than I otherwise would have. After all, I'm not going to have a job when I get back to the states and I will need something to live off of. It's really only an extra month and a half I'd be here so it's not that big a deal. Still, I've gotta give myself some time after I get back since I had planned on taking that long overdue trip to France later on this year. I'm thinking maybe the beginning of September, which will still give me enough time to get back and prepare for my brother's wedding. (I get to be a bridesmaid this time!) But, in the event that I don't have time to go in September, I guess I could always just put it off until after the wedding...no big deal.

And then there's that big looming question of what I'm going to do once I get back to the US. Should I stay and look for a job in St. Louis or should I flit off once again to places unknown? I guess only time will tell...